i was thinking that we need a term for proprietary/centralized software
"prisonware" came to mind, and was reinforced when i saw a post describing google as a prison 🗝️
most people don't know what proprietary, or centralized mean in terms of software, much less that they are bad 🤷♀️
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prisonware has an immediate negative connotation, and provides a nice umbrella term for anything on the anti-freedom tech spectrum
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some examples: 💬
"Obsidian is prisonware, despite some nice features the code is not public, it's controlled entirely by your jailors"
"Signal might be a FOSS app, but it's still prisonware, you're chained up to their server if you use it"
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